Erika J. Ahern is an accomplished Catholic journalist, staff writer and podcast co-host for CatholicVote's <em>The LOOP</em>. Her work has appeared in the <em>Plough Quarterly</em>, <em>Catholic Exchange</em>, <em>The Connecticut Examiner</em>, <em>Crisis Magazine</em>, and <em>Regina Magazine</em>. Erika lives in Connecticut with her husband, Todd, and their six children.
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New book aims to help readers find Christ in coronavirus crisis
By Kate Olivera, Catholic News Agency
January 19, 2021
When Rev. Harrison Ayre looks back on 2020 and the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the phrase that immediately comes to his mind is ‘dazed and confused.’
“I look back and I think to myself, ‘Oh, I could have put [that] more pastorally here and there,’” Father Ayre said. “But I’m also quite forgiving of myself in that regard because I think we were just all dazed and confused and no one knew what to do, because virtually everyone has no experience with a worldwide pandemic to base this off of.”